JAMB deliberately failed South-East students in the UTME server glitch hoax—ASUU Cries Out
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria Nsukka branch, has announced plans to take legal action against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) over the significant number of failures recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
During an interview with journalists in Nsukka on Wednesday, ASUU-UNN Chairman, Óyibo Eze, alleged that the examination results were skewed against candidates from the South-East region.
Mr Eze stated that the widespread failure, primarily impacting South-East students, was a calculated attempt by JAMB to hinder the admission prospects of children from this area.
He remarked, “My office has been inundated with protests, calls and visits by parents and the general public on this deliberate massive failure in the 2025 JAMB examination. ASUU will challenge this result in the High Court if JAMB fails to review the result and give candidates their merited scores. JAMB knows that children from the South-East must score higher before they can get admission whereas their counterparts in some parts of the country will use a 120 JAMB score to get admission to read medicine in universities in their area.”
He highlighted the alarming statistics from the recently released results, stating, “In the JAMB recently released result, out of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 examination, over 1.5 million candidates scored less than 200 and majority of these are from the South-East and Lagos State where many Igbo reside.”
Eze called upon the governors of the South-East to take action against what he described as an injustice aimed at obstructing students from the region from gaining access to higher education. He urged, “The governors in the zone should not sit and watch JAMB toy with the academic future of our children. I am not against the board punishing those found guilty of exam malpractice, but JAMB should not, because of these few candidates, fail the whole candidates in an exam centre.”
The ASUU leader expressed disbelief at the results from the University Secondary School, Nsukka, where he noted that not a single candidate achieved a score above 200 in the UTME. He stated, “This school has superlative students who have excelled in academics both inside and outside the school, how come all of them scored less than 200 in the exam? Even if JAMB discovered one or two candidates for exam malpractice, is that enough reason to fail all others who have prepared very hard for that exam?”
Mr Eze urged JAMB to take immediate action to rectify the situation, emphasising that the scale of the failure had escalated into a national concern that could spark widespread protests if not addressed promptly.
